You can’t go out to the mound hobbling and take a pitcher out with a cane.
CASEY STENGELThe trick is growing up without growing old.
More Casey Stengel Quotes
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I’ll never make the mistake of being seventy again.
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Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose ’em I never knew existed before.
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You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.
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The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.
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There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
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No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
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When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
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If you’re so smart, let’s see you get out of the Army.
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I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. I
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Son, we’d like to keep you around this season but we’re going to try and win a pennant.
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Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ’em.
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Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
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The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven’t made up their minds.
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I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I’ve been thrown out of so many.
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You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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